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Exploring new ideas for sustainable development of urban agglomerations-based on the coupling of people’s livelihood and environmental governance

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Peoples’ livelihood and environmental governance are interrelated and interact with each other, which is a new starting point for the study of sustainable development of urban agglomerations. Given the insufficient research on the combination of peoples’ livelihood and environment in urban agglomerations. Therefore, this study analyzes the coupling relationship of environmental governance and peoples’ livelihood to achieve the objective of sustainable development of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration. The results found that from 2008 to 2017, the coupling of the peoples’ livelihood and the environment has significantly improved, and the high-coupling area was concentrated in the central part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration. Moreover, with the rapid development of urban agglomerations, the gap between the development of peoples’ livelihood and environmental protection was not large and the correlation between the two sides is increasing. Finally, we propose to improve the development level of peoples’ livelihood and environment, focus on the relationship between peoples’ livelihood and environment related to promote the integration of peoples’ livelihood and environment development and other inspirations, to provide a reference for urban clusters to explore a sustainable development path.

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The funding was provided by Humanities and social sciences research project of the Ministry of Education (Grand No. 20YJAZH096), the philosophy and social sciences bidding project of wuxi (Grand No. wxsk21-a-12), 2020 open project of Jiangsu productivity society (Grand No. JSSCL2020B006), Key Project of National Social and Scientific Fund Program (Grand No. 18ZDA052) and Project of National Social and Scientific Fund (Grand No. 17BGL142), Jiangsu soft science project(Grand No. BR2021008).

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    Qianqian Huang & Benhong Peng

  2. School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Qianqian Huang, Benhong Peng, Xin Sheng & Anxia Wan

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Huang, Q., Peng, B., Sheng, X. et al. Exploring new ideas for sustainable development of urban agglomerations-based on the coupling of people’s livelihood and environmental governance. Environ Dev Sustain 24, 9985–10004 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01853-8

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